PS Audio founder and CEO, Paul McGowan, writes a daily blog: short, informative, fun, often controversial, but always interesting. Subjects range from personal stories, how to setup your system, news of the day, streaming, vinyl, tubes, transistors, loudspeakers, holographic imaging and more. Kind of like the Car Talk of audio. Not much is sacred, and there’s rarely a mention of our own products.

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Why HiFi?

Paul McGowan

When I first watched this wonderful video, Why HiFi, I hesitated to share it with my readers for fear of pushing our products. As you know, I am mostly interested...

See through sound

Paul McGowan

Audiophile terminology helps the initiated communicate what they're hearing: a means of describing with words sounds that we hear. One of my favorites is transparency—see through sound. I love this...

Road maps

Paul McGowan

Finding your way is easy once you've been somewhere. When it's an unknown, a map is essential. Problem is most newcomers to high-performance 2-channel audio don't even know there's a...

On the cutting edge

Paul McGowan

It's tough being on the cutting edge of new product design. One slip and that edge might just slice you right open. Yet it's pretty boring just nosing along the...

When to upgrade

Paul McGowan

When is it time to upgrade? Add another component like a Power Plant, a new cable, a better DAC? I get asked this question a lot. Just recently the question...

Relative better

Paul McGowan

Last night our Octave Records recording crew went live at a beautiful church venue here in Boulder. There we set up the Sonoma 8-track recorder, a Decca Tree microphone arrangement...